The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mariachi, Patrimony of Humanity is the theme of a glittering stage spectacle to be presented Sunday, June 30, noon at the Auditorio de la Ribera de Chapala.
The Tecnologico Chapala (technical school) on the Libramiento will host a performance by the Orquesta Tipica de Autlan on Wednesday, June 19 to raise funds for students with limited economic resources.
Learn the beautiful, romantic and sexy Cuban dance brought first to Veracruz in the 1870s and then spread throughout Mexico!
Organizers of the upcoming Feria Maestros del Arte are on the lookout for donations of Mexican folk art. They will set up shop at Can-Am Day at the Lake Chapala Society on July 2 to re-sell the donated art to help defray costs of the popular fair.
The Music Appreciation Society (MAS) has held open community meetings to garner more support and even brought in new volunteers but President Kathleen Phelps believes the 25-year-old iconic Lakeside organization may still be forced to close.
Generally by this time of the year, about 65 tickets for the coming season have been sold, Phelps says. This year MAS has sold just 16.
The rousing strains of traditional Mexican music will raise the rafters at Chapala’s Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo (CCGG) during the Encuentro de Arpas, Salterios y Mas (Festival of Harps, Psalteries and Other Acoustic Instruments) scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, from 2 p.m.
Le Femmes de Serge, a quartet of young performers that is gaining steady popularity in Guadalajara, pays homage to “chanson francaise,” the genre of music popularized in the 1940s and 50s in France, at El Piano Rojo (Morelos 14, Ajijic) on Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8.
